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 In
many African villages, children walk several miles to bring
unsanitary drinking water home for domestic uses. Often they
walk an average of 2-4 miles or more to find water in streams,
rivers, erosion ditches or gullies. These kinds of water
sources often incubate all types of diseases that unleash
terrible blows on their health condition and impact average
life expectancy.
In photo above, girl washes family's breadfruit for meal in this dirty water pond by her village road side. She's among a thousand others that have no access to clean sanitary water. Usually they will walk miles and climb hills and valleys to fetch unsafe open river water. Kids have to make these trips at
least twice daily. Once before going to school (and they are
often late to school each day), and then another time after
school in the early evening. Many children who could not
attend school due to abject poverty in their families, are
also seen in the streets of nearby urban centers hawking some
wares or food items they are saddled with each day by either
their parents, or the people they serve in these towns.
Child
labor is too rampant in many African towns, including
overburdening children with water fetching tasks several times
a day.
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Umunneme
ward of Ogberuru Village heaved a sigh of relief when
it received this gift of a finished water well and 2 public
spigot delivery systems in Summer of 2001.
Photo shows village children from nearby homes
fetching clean sanitary water for domestic use from two
recently installed public taps (spigots).
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 Developing
the water well: Our first well being test pumped immediately
after finding water below 115 feet. It was cased from 120 feet
and yields over 25 GPM (gallons per minute).
Water Properties: Colorless & clear, odorless,
and tasteless.
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poor and needy by providing them with appropriate & affordable
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Delivery System: Umunneme Ogberuru (ORLU) in
Nigeria 
This
Water Storage Tank is a little over 1000 gallons. The Well is
in the background.
It is filled by
pumping several time per day to meet the demands in this village
community of about 600 people.
The concrete slab around the well ensures durability for the
frequent public traffic in the vicinity of the well and storage
tank.
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